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submind deconstruction: sub = below or beneath mind = to be aware, to be conscious

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Professor of Linguistics Lal Zimman is interviewed by Rev. Jessë Valentine Portz for KCSB FM, 91.9 on January 4, 2016. In this interview we discuss the relationship of speech and gender, and how queer, genderqueer and transgender people express themselves vocally. We also discuss Prof. Zimman’s upcoming research in speech as it is used in communities.

Radio Show 27 January 7, 2016, 0600-0800 love letters from the submind This week we play ambient techno; and Rev. Jessë Valentine Portz interviews Dr. Tania Israel, a Professor at University of California Santa Barbara, about bisexual experience and mental health. She...

Rev. Jessë Valentine Portz of KCSB FM 91.9 MHz interviews Dr. Tania Israel, a Professor at University of California Santa Barbara, http://education.ucsb.edu/research-faculty/bio?first=Tania&last=Israel about bisexual experience and mental health. She also discusses her research into how to improve the wellbeing of bisexual and pansexual people and creating a local bisexual+ community.

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I’m wondering, is it too much to ask to be loved and accepted, to have a steady place to live, and a way to support oneself? Because I’m concerned I have an impossible dream to have these things.

Knowing one's self is not always easy or obvious. Identity is a very slippery thing. It can often feel like clothing that one can put on and take off like a hat, and yet in life there are parts of one's identity that are deeply rooted in our spirits, as essential to...

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English Gender Neutral Pronouns

The use of gender neutral pronouns in common English parlance is a practice which I strongly urge. There are many times when the imposition of gender on to second personal pronouns causes much harm. I certainly have been the subject of much psychological pain due to the existence in English of gendered pronouns. English is a special language among European tongues in that most of the language in not gendered.

My personal preference is to return to using e as a second person pronoun in English, which was common before the development of she and complementary he.

Gender neutral second person personal pronoun style guide:

He or She becomes E

His or Hers becomes Er

Him or Her becomes Em

As you may notice, these forms are derived by removing the ‘th’ from they, their, and them. This emphasizes English speakers preference for the e sound over alternates like ze/zie/sie/hir/hy, and is shorter and simpler than others’ alternates. Some have suggested ‘yo‘ as modern American English alternative. Typically used as a first person familiar address, use of ‘yo‘ as a second person pronoun can cause confusion. I do note that it can be difficult to insert new terms into a living language. One may wish to use they/them as an alternate solution.

Since it is difficult to add new usages of words to living languages, the singular they has become popular. This is also a traditional use, which fell out of fashion but has returned as an effective of using a first person singular pronoun without a determinate gender.

Please use gender neutral second person personal pronouns when speaking and writing in English. Many people will benefit from this development.

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